Iowa Independent » Search Results » 1759 http://iowaindependent.com Iowa politics, news, and commentary Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:30:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Iowa doctor accused of sterilizing woman against her will http://iowaindependent.com/17586/iowa-doctor-accused-of-sterilizing-woman-against-her-will http://iowaindependent.com/17586/iowa-doctor-accused-of-sterilizing-woman-against-her-will#comments Mon, 20 Jul 2009 16:24:37 +0000 Lynda Waddington http://iowaindependent.com/?p=17586 A 64-year-old Iowa Falls physician has had formal disciplinary charges filed against him by the Iowa Board of Medicine.

George Pfaltzgraff

George Pfaltzgraff

Dr. George H. Pfaltzgraff was charged on July 8 with performing a 2008 tubal ligation on a female patient without proper consent. According to the Iowa Board of Medicine, the woman told Pfaltzgraff that she did not want the procedure. There was no signed form of consent.

A hearing on the matter has been scheduled for Sept. 9.

Although the exact details aren’t available in the minutes of the Wisconsin Medical Examining Board, a Dr. George Pfaltzgraff was given an administrative warning in 2002.

Pfaltzgraff remains an active member of the staff at Ellsworth Municipal Hospital in Iowa Falls, according to the Associated Press.

]]> http://iowaindependent.com/17586/iowa-doctor-accused-of-sterilizing-woman-against-her-will/feed 4 COMMENTARY: King’s Racist Rant Rolls ‘Round The World http://iowaindependent.com/2062/commentary-kings-racist-rant-rolls-round-the-world http://iowaindependent.com/2062/commentary-kings-racist-rant-rolls-round-the-world#comments Mon, 10 Mar 2008 06:50:59 +0000 Douglas Burns http://iowaindependent.com/2062/commentary-kings-racist-rant-rolls-round-the-world Somewhere much warmer than this March in western Iowa, Joseph McCarthy is smiling down on the work of his political descendant, Rep. Steve King.

As a result of a globalization that McCarthy-worshipping Congressman Steve King cannot grasp, the 5th Congressional District Republican’s staggering racist comments about Barack Obama shot around the world, once again making western Iowa appear like a land that time left behind.

Thanks to King the world has a new geographic reference: Sioux City, the capital of yesterday.

Hundreds if not now thousands of news outlets — from ABC News (national) to The Times Of India – have reported King’s overt racist attack on Obama in which the Iowa congressman refers to what he believes are the dangerous “optics” of an Obama presidency.

Here is King:

“I’ll just say this, that when you think about the optics of a Barack Obama potentially getting elected president of the United States — and I mean, what does this look like to the rest of the world? What does it look like to the world of Islam?

“And I will tell you that, if he is elected president, then the

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